Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Machpelah Today?

Machpelah is identified with Cave of the Patriarchs. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceApproximate
Scripture refs6

Approximate confidence

Modern identification

Cave of the Patriarchs - modern identification under review

Coordinates31.5247, 35.1108
Kindsettlement
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Gen 23:9Gen 23:17Gen 23:19Gen 25:9Gen 49:30Gen 50:13

Why this place is in the atlas

Machpelah is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 6 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: ae00861, urlSlug: machpelah, friendlyId: Machpelah OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - Approximate
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 31.524672, longitude: 35.110758, precision: approximate OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - Approximate
scriptureReferences Gen 23:9, Gen 23:17, Gen 23:19, Gen 25:9 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High